The plasminogen–activator plasmin system in physiological and pathophysiological angiogenesis

AA Ismail, BT Shaker, K Bajou - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Angiogenesis is a process associated with the migration and proliferation of endothelial
cells (EC) to form new blood vessels. It is involved in various physiological and …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts: mechanisms of tumor progression and novel therapeutic targets

RP Czekay, DJ Cheon, R Samarakoon, SM Kutz… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The tumor microenvironment plays an important role in determining the
biological behavior of several of the more aggressive malignancies. Among the various cell …

Comorbidity-associated glutamine deficiency is a predisposition to severe COVID-19

T Matsuyama, SK Yoshinaga, K Shibue… - Cell Death & …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations have greatly reduced COVID-19 cases, but we must continue to
develop our understanding of the nature of the disease and its effects on human immunity …

SERPINE1 overexpression promotes malignant progression and poor prognosis of gastric cancer

S Chen, Y Li, Y Zhu, J Fei, L Song, G Sun… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The serine protease inhibitor clade E member 1 (SERPINE1) is a major inhibitor of tissue
plasminogen activator and urokinase, and has been implicated in the development and …

Epigenetic underpinnings of inflammation: Connecting the dots between pulmonary diseases, lung cancer and COVID-19

S Ahmad, S Manzoor, S Siddiqui, N Mariappan… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Inflammation is an essential component of several respiratory diseases, such as chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and acute respiratory distress syndrome …

Parallel single-cell and bulk transcriptome analyses reveal key features of the gastric tumor microenvironment

B Kang, J Camps, B Fan, H Jiang, MM Ibrahim, X Hu… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background The tumor microenvironment (TME) has been shown to strongly influence
treatment outcome for cancer patients in various indications and to influence the overall …

Linking obesity with colorectal cancer: epidemiology and mechanistic insights

P Ye, Y Xi, Z Huang, P Xu - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The incidence of obesity and colorectal cancer (CRC) has risen rapidly in recent decades.
More than 650 million obese and 2 billion overweight individuals are currently living in the …

Mechanisms of immunotherapy resistance in cutaneous melanoma: recognizing a shapeshifter

J Thornton, G Chhabra, CK Singh… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Melanoma is one of the seven most common cancers in the United States, and its incidence
is still increasing. Since 2011, developments in targeted therapies and immunotherapies …

ACT001, a novel PAI-1 inhibitor, exerts synergistic effects in combination with cisplatin by inhibiting PI3K/AKT pathway in glioma

X Xi, N Liu, Q Wang, Y Chu, Z Yin, Y Ding, Y Lu - Cell Death & Disease, 2019 - nature.com
PAI-1 plays significant roles in cancer occurrence, relapse and multidrug resistance and is
highly expressed in tumours. ACT001, which is currently in phase I clinical trials for the …

ESRP1-regulated isoform switching of LRRFIP2 determines metastasis of gastric cancer

J Lee, K Pang, J Kim, E Hong, J Lee, HJ Cho… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Although accumulating evidence indicates that alternative splicing is aberrantly altered in
many cancers, the functional mechanism remains to be elucidated. Here, we show that …